The ethics of intellectual property and the new information technologies
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The third in a series of roundtable discussions on engineering ethics focuses on intellectual property, where ethical distinctions are less clear-cut than they were in the previous discussions on the ethical dilemmas faced by engineers at work, and on engineering education. Moderator Michael Loui of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, highlights four areas for the discussion: control over intellectual property by research universities; universities sharing ownership with students and professors for courseware they develop that changes over time; company ownership rights for software and other digital documents developed by employees outside their assigned duties; and the intellectual property that employees can take with them when they leave a company or university. Roundtable participants are Joseph R. Herkert and Peggy Hoon of North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Linton G. Salmon and Caronline Whitbeck of Case Western Reserve University; Keith Miller of the University of Illinois, Springfield; Trudy E. Bell; Lesley Ellen Harris; Don Gotterbarn of the Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute at East Tennessee State University; Kay Kesan of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Brian O'Connell of Central Connecticut State University.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1999
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Implications of the Boise-based Idaho Power Company's resistance to power deregulation are discussed.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2006
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